Boris Margo

Alphabet #1
1962

A textured white-on-white print featuring embossed hieroglyphic-like symbols arranged in horizontal bands across the paper, with a larger, more abstract embossed shape on the left side. The artwork has a raised border framing the composition, and there are signatures or inscriptions at the bottom.

A textured white-on-white print featuring embossed hieroglyphic-like symbols arranged in horizontal bands across the paper, with a larger, more abstract embossed shape on the left side. The artwork has a raised border framing the composition, and there are signatures or inscriptions at the bottom.

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Date
1962

Classification
Prints

Medium
Embossed cellocut

Dimensions
Sheet: 22 5/16 × 29 15/16in. (56.6 × 76 cm) Image: 19 5/16 × 26 7/8in. (49 × 68.2 cm)

Accession number
2003.61

Edition
AP

Publication
Printed by Boris Margo

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Stanley Zimiles

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/17959

Boris Margo
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